Matariki acrostic Poems

 Kia Ora Bloggers,

We have been focusing on Matariki for the last couple of weeks. This has meant that we have read lots about this special celebration. Last week, we also had a special Matariki day where we joined our buddy classes for different activities.

This week, we have been working on sharing our new knowledge in acrostic poems. To start, we shared what we already know and then used these to craft sentences using the letters of the word Matariki.  Have a read of our creations below.

We would love some of your positive, thoughtful and helpful feedback. 

Reading and Summarising - How we keep safe in water

 Last week, we read stories about being safe around water as our Reading theme.  Our challenge was to find the main ideas in the stories we read to see if we could learn new ideas about how we can be safe around water or what we should do to be safe around water.  

We analysed and summarised ideas with our reading groups.  To do this we read and talked about

• the good things the characters in our stories did. 
• the not so safe things that they did.
• what we thought about the actions of the characters in the story. 

To show our thinking, we had the chance to use our new digital skills to make a poster to show some different ways that we can be safe around water using our new understanding.  Have a look at some of our DLO (digital learning objects) below.

We would appreciate some positive, thoughtful and helpful feedback about what we have created. Thanks for reading!